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Part of the Process
Roy Exley charts the purpose of paint in the work of four artists.
Ever since the demise of pop art, colour for its own sake, has fallen into disrepute within the painting fraternity. Along the way, painters have had to deal with the minimal, the conceptual, and a prolonged sequence of 'deaths' and 're-births' of painting itself. Towards the end of the 90s however, a whole range of artists working with paint in different ways seemed to be utilising colour again. Colour as a subject – like beauty – is being resurrected and afforded credibility once more, but this time within a different milieu, and with a different agenda. Now the practice of painting is more cerebral, more process based. Process painting has become a major player in this re-instatement of colour and in the work of artists like Jason Martin, Alexis Harding, Callum Innes and Deirdre King, it is clearly evident that colour is an inextricable part of the process and, as in the colour-field painting of the 60s, colour takes on a life of its own. Process painting adds another dimension, however, supplementing the dominance of colour with the interplay of surface and medium, where colour becomes more of an adjunct, an indicator, used by the artist as a facilitator; where...
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